Full Description
• Includes contributions from the late Ralph Metzner, Chris Bache, Whitley Strieber, Jeffrey Kripal, Angela Voss, Bill Richards, Chris Timmermann, Michael Winkelman, Luis Eduardo Luna, Anton Bilton, Bernard Carr, Daniel Pinchbeck, Dennis McKenna, Ede Frecska, and David Luke 
• Explores DMT beings, alien abduction, plant sentience, neuroscientific DMT research, the connections between LSD and DMT entities, and the nature of mind and reality 
Found throughout the plant and animal kingdom, DMT (dimethyltryptamine) is also naturally occurring in humans, and may be released during near-death and actual death experiences, earning it the title "the spirit molecule." When taken as a psychedelic, either via ayahuasca or in pure form, DMT is experientially considered to be one of the strongest and strangest of all entheogens. The majority of high-dose users report visions of unknown yet curiously familiar alien worlds and encounters with sentient nonhuman presences. 
At a four-day symposium at Tyringham Hall in England in 2017, twenty of the world's psychedelic luminaries gathered to discuss entheogenic entity encounters, consciousness expansion, visionary experiences, and the future of research in this field. Contributors to the talks and discussions include many leading thinkers, including the late Ralph Metzner, Chris Bache, Whitley Strieber, Je rey Kripal, Angela Voss, Bill Richards, Chris Timmermann, Michael Winkelman, Luis Eduardo Luna, Anton Bilton, Bernard Carr, Daniel Pinchbeck, Dennis McKenna, Ede Frecska, and David Luke. 
This book distills the potent exchange of ideas that occurred at Tyringham Hall, including discussions about DMT beings, encounter experiences, alien abduction, plant sentience, the shamanic use of ayahuasca, neuroscientifi c DMT research, the connections between LSD and DMT entities, and the nature of mind and reality.
Contents
Foreword 
About the Exploring Entheogenic Entity Encounters Symposium 
Rory Spowers and David Luke 
Preface Symposium Objectives 
David Luke 
Introduction 
The Marrying of Science and Spirituality 
Anton Bilton 
Chapter 1 
On Encounters with Entities in the Ayahuasca Realm
A Phenomenological View 
Luis Eduardo Luna 
DISCUSSION 
Chapter 2 
Visionary Experiences, Entities, and Alien Worlds 
A Natural Evolved Psychology 
Michael Winkelman 
DISCUSSION 
Chapter 3 
Entheogens, Radical Empiricism, and the Nature of Reality 
Ralph Metzner
DISCUSSION 
Chapter 4 
Subjective Experiences and Sensed Presence Phenomenon in Human Research with DMT Chris Timmermann 
DISCUSSION
Chapter 5
Ineffability and Revelation on the Frontiers of Knowledge 
William Richards 
DISCUSSION
Chapter 6 
Stories from a Life
 A Lifetime of Anomalous and Unexplained Experiences 
Whitley Strieber 
DISCUSSION 
Chapter 7 
What Is the Daimon?
 An Exploration of the Oracular Intelligence 
Angela Voss 
DISCUSSION 
Chapter 8 
Making Space and Time for Mind and Psychedelia 
Bernard Carr 
DISCUSSION 
Chapter 9 
LSD and DMT Entity Relation Chris M. Bache 
DISCUSSION 
Chapter 10 
Biological Gods Science (Fiction) and Some Emergent Mythologies Jeffrey J. Kripal 
DISCUSSION 
Chapter 11 
Initiation, Spiritual Science, and the Limits of Reason 
Daniel Pinchbeck 
DISCUSSION
Chapter 12 
Summary of Divine Molecule Talks 
Exploring Entheogenic Entity Encounters 
David Luke 
Speaker Citations 
Speaker Biographies 
Discussant Biographies 
Editor and Symposium Curator Biographies
Index


 
               
               
               
               
              


